by Ileana Balcu | Mar 20, 2013 |
Please join us for a tweetchat this evening – Wednesday March 20 at 8 PM ET/ 5PM PT. We’ll talk about: What’s new with Gimme my DAM Data #gmdd ? – Wall Street Journal picked the story at SXSW conference...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 17, 2012 |
As Meaningful Use rolls out, and providers are required to share data with us, there are a lot of concerns about whether their lives will spin out of control as patients besiege them with ignorant questions. We’ve discussed this in our many posts about the...
by Kathleen O'Malley | May 7, 2012 |
E-Patient Hugo Campos, whose quest to obtain his medical data has been followed by the media (including this blog) over the past several months, appears in a new interview in SFGate.com. He discusses a common fear of e-patients — that he may be perceived by...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 20, 2012 |
We often say here “Gimme my damn data,” referring to our sentiment that data about our health is our data, about us, created for our well-being. And as the saying goes, “Nothing about me without me.” And where, we might ask, is that more vital...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 3, 2012 |
Followers of our “gimme my data” series will get a rough-edged refresher about current reality by the well-written and raw story of @WilliamDale_MD’s Sunday post Medical Health Record: A Personal Journey Down the Rabbit Hole. A great narrative by a...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2011 |
This post contains street language about body parts, harvested from Twitter last night with Xeni’s permission. This is a story of a non-medical person getting it in gear when she finds herself in need, and what happens when she does. A famous blogger/journalist...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 20, 2011 |
An essential aspect of participatory medicine – and Federal meaningful use criteria – is patients having a copy of their health data, so they can (a) understand it and (b) take it wherever they want. That includes radiology images. This is not a new issue...
by e-Patient Dave | May 8, 2010 |
This is an essay I (mostly) wrote April 28 on Vince Kuraitis’s e-Care Management Blog, part of his series with David Kibbe MD about the Federal EMR incentives, titled “Is HITECH Working?” The series is, in my opinion, the most useful update...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Nov 11, 2016 |
On September 26, 2016, President Obama recognized Health IT Week by saying: We have worked to clarify an individual’s legal right to access their health information and transmit it where they choose—whether it’s to a family member or to their smartphone. These efforts...
by Alicia Staley | Feb 8, 2016 |
SPM members Janice McCallum and Pat Rioux are also members of the New England chapter of HIMSS, the gigantic Health Information Management Systems Society. They have arranged a special deal for SPM members: free admission to their March 29 meeting (if you register by...
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